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2024 Pangaea Prize Winner

17 Tuesday Feb 2026

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From Another Future

Another future disappears from the future
suspended in superposition
blinking in and out
until the cloud of probabilities
collapses into tea and toast
in the pale morning light…

Read the rest of the winning poems by Claire Scott

Claire Scott is an award-winning poet who has received multiple Pushcart Prize
nominations. Her work has appeared in the Atlanta Review, Bellevue Literary
Review, New Ohio Review and Healing Muse among other journals. Claire is the
author of Waiting to be Called and Until I Couldn’t. She is the co-author of Unfolding in Light: A Sisters’ Journey in Photography and Poetry.

Keeping AI Out of the Writing Classroom

12 Thursday Feb 2026

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“To keep AI out of her classroom, this high school English teacher went analog.” Ditching the laptops for paper and pencils. How important is this for young people in developing their writing voice? How do you nurture yours?
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/28/nx-s1-5631779/ai-schools-teachers-students

Bermuda Triangle Poetry Prize Submissions

02 Monday Feb 2026

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Bermuda Triangle Prize

We are open to interpretations on the theme: harmony, partnership, belonging; losing relations, discord, chaos; the complexity among ecosystems or among the human-made governing bodies. Send us your interpretation, however literal or liberal.

Each winning poem will receive $50, for a total cash prize of $150. The poems will be published and displayed in the Poet’s Billow Literary Art Gallery. Up to five finalists will be considered for publication.

We nominate for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net Anthology, and The Best New Poets Anthology.

Full Submission Guidelines

September Poetry Workshops

11 Sunday Aug 2024

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September – 4-week virtual poetry workshop 

Thursday @ 6:00-8:00 PM EST

Instructor: Michelle Bonczek Evory is an award-winning author with a poetry textbook and four collections of poetry.

This interactive workshop is for writers at any level. During the live meeting time one of your poems will be discussed by the workshop group including the workshop instructor. This is a small intimate workshop with 6 seats available.

Email: Thepoetsbillow@gmail.com

Fill out our form to sign up or find out more

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Winners of the 2023 Bermuda Triangle Prize

07 Wednesday Aug 2024

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The Poet’s Billow

-Announcing-

Bermuda Triangle Award Winners
of 20223

Winners:
Pinny Bulman – “there’s blood in the water of my freedom” & two more poems
Pamela Alexander – “Snow” & two more poems
Mary K O’Melveny – “Examining Images From Space Telescopes” & “A Late October Convocation”

Finalists:
Sarah Das Gupta – View Points
Amanda Hayden – On Losing your Childhood Home in Illinois
Karla Linn Merrifield – At Silver Lake
Samuel Samba – A Flooding in My Name
Nikki Ummel – Scattering Your Ashes on Lake James

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BOOKS

New Book by Rob Carney

04 Sunday Aug 2024

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Rob Carney was a finalist for multiple contests on The Poet’s Billow. He has a new book out through Texas A&M University called The Book of Drought which you can pre-order now!

The Poet’s Billow Publications
The Typesetter’s Story
Nothing to See Here, I’m Just Snowing
Lynx Music

Rob Carney is the author of four previous books of poems, most recently 88 Maps (Lost Horse Press, 2015), which was named a finalist for the Washington State Book Award, as well as the forthcoming collection The Book of Sharks (Black Lawrence Press). In 2014 he received the Robinson Jeffers/Tor House Foundation Award for Poetry. His work has appeared previously in The Poet’s Billow (2015), as well as Cave Wall, Columbia Journal, Sugar House Review, and many others, and he writes a regularly featured series called “Old Roads, New Stories” for Terrain: A Journal of the Built and Natural Environments. He lives in Salt Lake City.

Poetry Submissions Open for the 2024 Atlantis Award

29 Monday Jul 2024

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The Atlantis Award is given for a single best poem. The winning poet receives $300. The winning poem will be published and displayed in the Poet’s Billow Literary Art Gallery. Finalists will be considered for publication.

Atlantis Award Complete Guidelines

We nominate for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net Anthology, and The Best New Poets Anthology.

Read previous year’s winners here: Literary Art Gallery

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Bermuda Triangle Poetry Prize Submissions

09 Saturday Mar 2024

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Bermuda Triangle Prize

Current Theme: Relationships

We are open to interpretations on the theme: love, friendship, companionship; losing relations, relationships to animals, plants, and objects; relationships between ecosystems or among the stars. Send us your interpretation however literal or liberal.

Each winning poem will receive $50, for a total cash prize of $150. The poems will be published and displayed in the Poet’s Billow Literary Art Gallery. Up to five finalists will be considered for publication.

We nominate for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net Anthology, and The Best New Poets Anthology.

Full Submission Guidelines
Bermuda Triangle Poetry Prize

March Poetry Workshop: Write, Refine, Submit

22 Thursday Feb 2024

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March – 5-week virtual poetry workshop 

Saturdays @ 1:00-3:00 EST

Instructor: Michelle Bonczek Evory is an award winning author with a poetry textbook and four collections of poetry.

This workshop will focus on creating a refined submission packet that is ready to send to literary journals and magazines. No matter your experience with writing and publishing this workshop will help you advance your poetry and practice.

Email: Thepoetsbillow@gmail.com

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